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cna|s'r's sneon comne. 17|aher their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promiseof his coming?" GLC., agreeing with what Christ said thewicked ministers would be doing when he comes.Theywould say in their hearts, My Lord delayeth his coming.Can there be this happy time described in the abovetheory ? All must answer, No. Then let this suiice asanswer to the above theory, until our opponents provetheir own sentiments by the word. There are manymore branches of the above system, but none that I haveseen but are liable to the sameobjections.I shall now undertake to prove thatthis reign is in theimmortal state, atterthe resurrection; that Christ willbe present with his people, and, of course, personally,and that it will be on the earth.thL Then I _amto prove that it will be immortalattere resurrecnon.The present reign is called, in Scripture, a reign ofgrace; "So might reign through righteousnessunto eternal life, by grace esus Christ our Lord." This reihas been ever since Christ was in the world, for 1853years past. We shall now show that this rei n mustcontinue until after the resurrection of the desi. See1 Cor. xv. 23-26; "But every man in his own order;Christ the first. fruits, (resurrection ;) afterwards they thatare Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end, whenhe shall have `ven up the kingdom to God, even theFather; whenile shall put down all rule, and all authorityand power. For he must reign till he hath put allenemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall bedestroyed is death." Here we have plain Scripture thatthe samereign of grace must continue unto eternal life;and. in the other text, until the resurrection of them thatare Christ's, and death, the last enemy to the church, isdestroyed, Where, then, shall weget in a spiritual ortemporal reign? We see evidently there is no changeof the reign of Christ in the gospel or grace, from theapostles' da s until the time comes when the saints shallyssess the hingdom in the immortal state. Paul says,om. v. 17, " For it' byone man's oH`ence death reignedby one, much morethey which receive abundance of